Man Goes to Jail for Catastrophic Diarrheahttp://www.salon.com/2013/07/26/found_guilty_of_the_worst_bowel_movement_ever/"The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a conviction against a Maine man who served a seven-day jail sentence for willfully damaging and creating a hazard and nuisance in the federal courthouse in Portland.
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"As he was being screened by security, he informed the guard that he had to use the bathroom, and then that he was defecating in his pants. The guard escorted him to the restroom 'with Strong
intermittently trailing feces on the floor' which he later described as '
liquid and there was pieces in it' that dripped down his leg 'all the way to my ankles.'
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'I don’t know if you’ve ever spilled
spaghetti sauce and there’s meat, you’re trying to get it up as quick as you can. And that’s – basically it was just like this frenetic pace'.
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'The relevant question is not whether he purposefully defecated his pants, but whether he willfully
spread his feces all over the bathroom resulting in a nuisance, hazard, and damage,' the majority opinion reads, finding that he did and doubting that the poop could have spread
two feet up the wall by accident. The opinion also noted that Strong had a potential motive because he had twice lost a Social Security case in the same courthouse.
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Torruella [the judge authoring the dissenting opinion] delves into the context of the cleaning lady’s use of the term 'smear' in her testimony, noting that while the majority interpreted the word to mean it was intentional, she had actually described it as 'not necessarily like finger smears but
just chunks — chunks and smears, pretty much, kind of like chunky peanut butter.'